Daler Singh Mehndi was born in Patna, Bihar on 18 August 1967. Brought up into a family of musicians who had been singing for seven generations, his early influences on music are his parents, who taught him various raga and Shabad's from the Guru Granth Sahib Ji. At age 11 inspired by the Patiala Gharana style of Indian Classical Music, he ran away from home in search of the Late Ustad Raahat Ali Khan Sahib of Gorakhpur for lessons.